Quorum
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
JUSTICES OF THE. The ancient commissions to justices of the peace ran; “ Assignavimus etiam vos et quolibet duos vel plures nostrum (quorum aliquem vc strum A, B, C, D, etc., unum esse volumus) justitiarios nostros ad enquirendum,” etc. We have appointed you and any two or more of you (of whom we wish any one of the following, A, B, C, D, etc., to be one) as our justices, etc. The intention was that only those justices who were learned in the law should be of the quorum. They are said to have existed in Massachusetts; see Taylor’s Life of Judge Philips 347.